Javier G. Cuesta

The International Committee of the Red Cross helps relatives in Moscow who are searching for their loved ones and struggling with the pain of absence

The only Russian port operable in winter is both an asset and a vulnerability for the Kremlin

A Moldovan fugitive named Ilan Shor is behind A7, a parallel financial structure that allows Russia to skirt its international isolation

The Russian president’s party, United Russia, has set aside dozens of seats for veterans. The Communist Party supports him despite denouncing electoral fraud

The businessman, who accompanied Vladimir Putin on his recent trip to China, controls the country’s betting payment system and heads the opaque International Boxing Association, suspended by the IOC

NGOs report an increase in abuses by recruiters whose targets are often vulnerable people. According to analysts, Moscow registers some 20,000 casualties a month

The US president offered his Russian counterpart ‘significant economic benefits’ in exchange for ending the war in Ukraine

The only Russian party advocating a ceasefire in Ukraine has been barred from the September legislative elections despite polling second in official surveys

John Ratcliffe’s meeting with the heads of Russian intelligence has unleashed all kinds of speculation as acts of sabotage in Europe keep rising

Previously the economic engine of the Russian-occupied peninsula, the region can no longer welcome tourists as its resources have hit rock bottom 

The largest city on the Crimean Peninsula is struggling to return to normal after a Ukrainian bombing campaign that has put Russian infrastructure under severe strain

NASA ordered its astronauts to shelter in a capsule after Roscosmos unilaterally decided to repair an air leak. An incident that exposes a more dangerous fissure: lack of trust between Moscow and Washington

Kyiv is intensifying its offensive in the occupied east to cut off the Moscow-annexed tongue of land north of the Sea of Azov

The economic forum has faded after four years of war in Ukraine, but loyalties and contracts are still being woven behind the scenes

In Moscow, the EU is equated with Nazi Germany. An escalation against the bloc would allow the Kremlin to carry out a new mobilization

Problems with online payments and ATMs have pushed citizens to withdraw record amounts over the past three months

The Russian capital’s air defense systems are failing to stem the tide of Ukrainian strikes. The Kremlin is wondering what a nuclear power can do against conventional attacks

In just a few days, authorities opened an exhibition targeting Poles at the Katyn mass graves, criminalized the Memorial association, and restructured the Gulag museum

Official and independent polls agree on the decline of the Russian leader’s approval ratings as economic problems worsened from 2025 onwards

The Kremlin and the Russian public are locked in a cat‑and‑mouse game over the government’s attempts to control the global web. Children and older adults alike now know how to use the tools needed to get around the censorship

Celebrities with millions of followers criticize the authorities for not informing the president about the country’s problems, although they avoid attacking him directly

The Roscosmos agency is delaying its attempt to explore the lunar surface with robots for another year, after its failure in 2023. The initiative seeks to establish ‘sovereign Russian territories on its surface’

Andrei Soldatov and his colleague Irina Borogan say that the Kremlin’s intelligence services believe they are in an eternal war against the West

Residents in the city are turning to pagers and printed maps due to the outages in the Russian capital

The Kremlin is offloading its offshore oil reserves due to the Middle East crisis, but a sustained global recession would hit its economy hard

‘Life is divided into a before and an after,’ says one of the thousands of soldiers who return without legs or arms and who has founded a rehabilitation center